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It was the most successful environmental lobby day in Louisiana history! Over fifty citizen activists were in attendance for the release of the Environmental Briefing Book (www.labriefingbook.org) which each activist was to deliver to their Legislator. The book was prepared by “a coalition of groups and individuals who are passionate about providing good air to […]

A disgusting odor has been permeating the city of Hattiesburg, MS lately. For awhile, the city public works department claimed it didn’t know the cause, but most everyone who smelled it knew that it smelled a lot like sewage. It turns out that the city’s sewage lagoons are to blame.There is more to the story,

New Orleans native, and creator of the most famous Play-Doh figure this side of Gumby, Walter Williams is a documentary filmmaker, frequent GRN collaborator, and perhaps best known for Mr. Bill of classic Saturday Night Live fame. Walter and GRN worked together on our “Hear The Music” campaign targeting Shell at Jazzfest. Here’s Walter’s post

Throughout the month of April, Aveda salons across the Southeast have been busy raising money for the GRN. The funds raised will support our work to protect clean water. Please visit your local Aveda salon and thank them for their hard work and commitment to a healthy Gulf.These are just a few photos from the

Heading to Jazz Fest today? If you’re there or in the neighborhood, keep an eye on the sky and check out our message to Shell, the sponsor of the event. We’re going to have a plane flying a banner over the festivities, reading: Shell, hear the music. Fix the coast you broke!As you well know,

The Dogwood Alliance, an amazing organization that works to hold corporations accountable for the impact of their industrial forestry practices on the forests and communities of the South, is launching a new campaign. Read more in the following blog post from Dogwood’s Organizing Director, Eva Hernandez.DOGWOOD KICKS OFF NEW CAMPAIGN AND WEBSITECheck out the new

On April 17 we loaded fourteen of us into a van and a car and drove up to Vicksburg for a hearing on the Yazoo Pumps project. Vicksburg is a 3.5 hour drive from New Orleans, so we were prepared for a long day, though I don’t think any of us expected it to be

I just got back from a public hearing on the Richton Salt Domes project on April 10, and the turnout was incredible. Somewhere between 250 and 300 Mississippi coast residents turned out to speak out against this destructive pork project. There were landowners, fishermen, industrialists, scientists, environmentalists, and many more people who wouldn’t fit into

On April 1st Tulane’s Environmental Action League joined thousands of people around the world in a day of protest against the fossil fuel industry. Fossil Fools Day, organized by the Energy Action Coalition and a number of other international environmental groups, boasted protests, acts of civil disobedience, green job rallies, and a ton of media

A quick update from Charlotte, NC for everyone. Yesterday, about 20 activists and I demonstrated outside the Lowe’s Corporate Headquarters with banners and fliers calling on Lowe’s to live up to their corporate environmental policies by no longer selling unsustainable cypress mulch. We wanted to make sure Lowe’s employees knew about the destruction their company